Rodham

　　1971年，年輕氣盛的希拉蕊作為畢業生代表，站在菁英輩出的衛斯理學院廳堂裡，發表一場令所有人都印象深刻的畢業致辭，還因此登上了《Life》雜誌的封面。屬於她未來的光明大道，似乎就在眼前，直到進了耶魯法學院，遇到了那名叫做比爾．柯林頓的男生。

　　比爾帥氣、談吐得宜，有野心又具備迷人的魅力，碰上自信聰明又努力的希拉蕊，天生一對般的直覺讓兩個人迅速掉進了戀愛的世界裡，甚至還論及婚嫁。就算希拉蕊多次抓到比爾偷吃（對，年輕時候就有過不少經驗），她似乎都無法放棄追隨著愛離鄉背井，回到比爾家鄉⋯⋯不對，這樣的婚姻她真的能夠接受嗎？不，再怎麼痛，希拉蕊也要立刻分手，走向屬於她自己精彩的政治人生！

　　看作者如何為這位美國史上被婚姻耽誤政治人生的第一夫人，重新詮釋她精彩的從政生活，推估柯林頓在沒有這位得力助手的情況下，可能會輸掉總統大選；而希拉蕊自己，是否又將會在總統黨內初選時，遇上這位從前的「舊情人」呢？

　　From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham hadn’t married Bill Clinton?
 
　　In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she’s attending Yale Law School, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome, charismatic southerner and fellow law student, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other, the two find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced.
 
　　In the real world, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once, as we all know, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton.
 
　　But in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades, she blazes her own trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life.
 
　　Brilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness, moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.